‘Not an entirely bad day at the office,’ claims Gatland after 43-0 defeat by France
- Wales beaten again in Paris by dominant France
- Defeat extends team’s run of losses to 13 in a row
Warren Gatland tried to find a good explanation for why Wales lost 43-0. He picked out the way his team had “overplayed” in a couple of key moments, which he said was all down to their inexperience, and touched on a handful of decisions made by the refereeing team: a high tackle on Josh Adams which had not been punished, penalties against James Botham and Freddie Thomas which he felt had been unduly harsh. But even Gatland didn’t seem persuaded by the case he was making.
The unavoidable, and uncomfortable, truth, is that Wales played pretty much as well as they can right now, and still came up short in every respect. “I don’t think it was an entirely bad day at the office,” Gatland said, which is a hell of an observation to make about a record defeat. “The scrum was good, some of the lineout was good, there were some really good defensive sets. It’s about where can we fix up to be smarter, and put the opposition under pressure instead of inviting it on ourselves.”
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